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I did that for a number of my books this year. I did it through the bookstore at school because that was easiest. It still wasn't cheap though. Renting was like $90, buying used was maybe $150, and new might've been $250. So, I guess I saved. Although, had I bought used and been able to resale for the same used price online, I could've saved more, but that's too much trouble and you never know when a new edition will come out to make yours useless. The bookstore warned me that if I had "excessive" highlighting, they wouldn't take it back and I'd be on the hook for the full price. So, I was just careful about that. I guess I'd do it again, maybe, but honestly if I had it all to do over, I wouldn't have bought any books and I would've just prepared for on-calls based on old outlines and done the same for exams. I find actually reading the cases to be a huge time suck and got nothing out of it.

I've done it for a few books simply because the purchase price - resale value > rental price. I used BigWords.com to find the cheapest price and then found coupon codes to bring the price down further.

I'd say if the casebook is fairly new, it's better to buy and resell. I bought many books for ~120 and resold on amazon trade-in for ~$80-90. I probably generated at least $1000 in amazon credit from trading in law school books. Used them to buy a new flat screen and Christmas presents for a few years.

The risk is that a new edition will be released, and yours will be worthless.

some of the rentals my classmates had were marked up to hell. Luck of the draw, so to speak...personally I like a clean book, I don't trust other people's highlighting/case notes.

1) Go to cheapbooks.com
2) Run a search for the title or isbn and it will give you a list of websites that sell it, as well as those that rent it
3) Find the cheapest
4) Profit

I used chegg.com and it worked perfectly.

I don't mind other peoples highlighting